* [PATCH] kconfig: fix infinite loop in conf_choice() when no choice value is visible
@ 2026-10-05 20:24 lzhan011
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From: lzhan011 @ 2026-10-05 20:24 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: nathan, nsc; +Cc: linux-kbuild, linux-kernel
From: lzhan011 <zhangleizhen645@gmail.com>
If a choice is visible but none of its choice values is, conf_choice()
counts cnt == 0 visible values and finds no default. When the choice has
to be asked, e.g. because a new symbol was added to the same menu
(oldconfig, syncconfig) or because stdin is at EOF (oldaskconfig), the
loop that maps the answer to a menu entry never finds one and the
while (1) loop repeats forever, printing "choice[1-0?]: 0" each time.
This happens in the tree for s390 when the compiler supports none of the
-march=z* options (e.g. a non-s390 host compiler), so that all values of
the "Processor type" choice are invisible:
$ make ARCH=s390 defconfig
$ sed -i '/^CONFIG_NR_CPUS=/d' .config
$ make ARCH=s390 oldconfig # hangs
Before the removal of tristate choice support, conf_choice() returned
early in this case. Do the same when there is no visible choice value.
Found by fuzzing Kconfig input with ASan/UBSan.
Fixes: fde192511bdb ("kconfig: remove tristate choice support")
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-5-5 libFuzzer
Signed-off-by: lzhan011 <zhangleizhen645@gmail.com>
---
scripts/kconfig/conf.c | 3 +++
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
diff --git a/scripts/kconfig/conf.c b/scripts/kconfig/conf.c
index ca6d9d735..31c6fd25e 100644
--- a/scripts/kconfig/conf.c
+++ b/scripts/kconfig/conf.c
@@ -483,6 +483,9 @@ static void conf_choice(struct menu *menu)
}
printf("\n");
}
+ /* Nothing to ask if none of the choice values is visible. */
+ if (!cnt)
+ return;
printf("%*schoice", indent - 1, "");
if (cnt == 1) {
printf("[1]: 1\n");
--
2.34.1
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